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OLATHE, Johnson Co., Kas. 
GRANT AVE. New Year, 1908. 



Charles R. Green, Autiquarian- 
Historian; issues this circular 
letter to his friends and corres- 
pondents. Enclosed with print- 
ed articles or pamphlets the re- 
cipient will accept them as a do- 
nation or as applying on his ex- 
change account. 

After 2 7 years residence in 
Osage County, near Lyndon, 17 
years of which I was active in 
my historical work among its 
Pioneers of 1854 — 58 and along 
its 26 miles of Sante Fe Trail 
passing no more than 20 miles 
South of Topeka, and frequent 
opportunities of gathering his- 
tory on the old Sac and Pox Re- 
serve, about the indians who 
lived there until almost 1870, I 
found it wise and necessary to 
remove to the vicinity of some 
large city where I could obtain 
better publishing facilities. 

Olathe, a city of 4500, settled 
in 1857, is connected by some 20 
trains and motor cars, daily, 
with Kansas City 22 miles dis- 
tant. It is a clean moral sort of 
a place that one is not afraid to 
bring a family to. A great city 
for retired farmers. 

Here I have opened out my 
Historical Reference Library of 
some 1600 vols, and in connec- 
tion, will in another year, open 
a museum. My rooms located at 
the corner of Loula and Walnut 
Sts. are convenient to the Public 
Square and yet away from all 
noise. 



At present my place will be 
know as Green's Library and 
Museum. It is hoped that in a 
year or two the Olathe literary 
loving people may be able to ef- 
fect some arrangement, that 
several small libraries may all 
be united into one good public 
library, and a tine library build- 
ing be erected. 

In the meanwhile the subscri- 
ber will go on finishing up his 
partly printed books "Annals of 
Lyndon," "Early Days in Kan- 
sas" and "Reminiscences of 
Osage County Pioneers." He 
will soon commence the publica- 
tion of his Sac and Fox Indian 
History, after they left Iowa in 
1845. Forty half-tone cuts were 
prepared by the Mail and Breeze 
Engraving Department, last win- 
ter, for the first installment, 
which will be in 160 page maga- 
zine form, at 50 cents each. 

The first named books are 
small editions. The "Annals" 
having 400 and the "Early Days" 
200 pages each : Octavo size. 

I haA'e been fortunate in get- 
ting an abundance of historical 
data ; for I have met the Indians 
repeatedly and been in their 
homes in Oklahoma, and had 
some of them in my house. 

I came to Kansas, April 1867, 
settling in Leavenworth Co. in 
1868. I am a member of the 
Old Settlers Association of 
Osage County. 

I shall be pleased to hear from 
you any time. 

CHARLES R. GREEN, 
Mem. Kan. Historical Society : 
and Life Member of Fireland's 
Hist. Soc'y, Norwalk, O. 



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